Sausage-stuffer.



No. 372,294. PATENTBD Nov. 26, 1907.

\ H. P. HAMBRUGH. y

SAUSAGE STUPFBR.

APPLICATION FILED DI10.8. 1906.

` UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEroE.

HEINRICH F. HAMBRUCH, OF HAMBURG, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR OF THREE-FOURTHS TO -THE FIRM OF BIBERFELD & CO., OF HAMBURG, GERMANY.

SHUSAGE-STUFFER.

specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Novi 26, 1907.

Application filed December 8| 1906- Serial No. 346.900.

T 0 all whom 'it may cof/wem:

Be it known that I, HEINRICH F. HAM- BRUCH, a citizen and resident of Hamburg, in the German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sauand close at the same time suchsausage-sections at their ends ina simple and reliable manner.

The mechanism for lling the spout tube and for turning the` gut carrier tube forms no part of the present invention such mechanism 1s however shown` described and claimed 1n a co-pendirig apV lication filed by me August 27, 1906, Seria Number 332,223.

The improvements more particularly refer to means for holding the gut to be filled on the said gut carrier tube, which means opermitsA the gut to be readily drawn off in longitudinal direction from its carrier tube during ,theV stuffing operation, but reliably prevents the gut from sliding 1n circumferentlal direction on the gut carrier tube when the latter is rotated.

With this end in view my invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claims, with reference to the accompanying sheet of drawing, in which I have shown only as much of a sausage stuifer made in faccordance with my invention as is necessary for a clear understanding of the invention.

vFigure 1 is a vertical longitudinal section of the s out-tube, the rotatable gut carrierdrawn off therefrom and filled with sausagemeat for a length of a sausage-section b1.

The intermittent rotation of the gut carrier tube may be effected by means of a bevel gear'd firmly connected with the gut carrier tube and set in motion by suitable drivin means (not shown). The hub of the beve gear d is journaled in a suitable bearing h.

To the hub of the bevel gear d is attached by means of setscrews e or the like a socket 4or sleeve f preferably provided in its middle part with longitudinal slots f1 andhaving at its front end a mouth piece f2. piece is some distance away from the tube c, so that between these two elements an annu- This mouth lar passage is formed for passing the gut b upon its carrier tube c. Upon the mouth piece f2 is placed an indiarubber socket or 'cufl` g, the front end of which ts snugly upon the gut carrier tube c so as to dpess the gut tightly and firmly with yiel g pressure against the outer surface of the tube c.

In the ordinary stuffing operation when filling a sausage section with sausage meat, the gut b is drawn off from the tube c and from under the rubber cuff g in the same ratio as the gut is filled, because the sliding friction of the gut between the tube c and the elastic cuff g in longitudinal direction is only a proportionately slight one. When after the completion oi a sausage section the stuffing o eration ceases and the gut carrier tube c wit the empty gut b clamped 'thereon b the rubber cuff g is rotated for making at 2 a few turns in the gut, the latter tends to slide in circumferential direction between its clamping members c and g. But as in this direction the sliding friction between the gut and the cuff g is considerable, any displacement of the gut on the tube c in circumferential direction will impart to the front edge of the cuff ga distortion or twist whereby the front part of the cuff is caused to exert a still greater clamping action and thus prevent the gut from sliding in circumferential direction on the tube c. The gut being thus clamped must therefore participate .at all events in the rotations of the gut carrier tube.

The means hitherto known or in use for holding the gut on the rotatable gut carrier tube do not prove successful, as they do not clamp the 'gut on the carrier tube while rotating in a sufficiently reliable manner and as they dama e and scratch the gut at the clamping p ace very often, thereby causing trouble in many respects. These drawbacks are fully obviated by the construction shown and the'vapplication .and use of the improved india rubber cuH as a yielding holding means for the gut.

I claim.:

1. The combination with a stationary spout and a gut-carrying tube rotatable thereon, of a rigid sleeve surrounding the gut-carrying tube forming an annular space for the storage of the gut, and an elastic cuff mounted on and projecting beyond the sleeve and engaging the entire periphery of the gut on the tube.

2. The combination With a stationary filling-spout and a gut-carrying tube rotatable thereon, of a longitudinally slotted rigid sleeve shorter than the tube and surrounding tube and sleeve, and a soft rubber cuH mounted on the sleeve having one end projecting beyond the latter, the inner periphery of said projecting end adapted to press the gut against the entire outer periphery of the projecting portion of the gut-carrying tube.

HEINRICH F. HAMBRUCH.

Witnesses:

MAX A. G. LEMCKE, OTTO W. HELLMRICH 

